[mythtv-users] nvidia tv-out - how do you do it? Better, but
not there yet.
Brad Fuller
bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 21 04:59:11 UTC 2004
Holy Cow John! I knew there was an easy answer! That did it!
Where should I send your 6 pack of beer? ;-)
THANKS A MILLION!
brad
john salch wrote:
>export DISPLAY=0.1
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>--- Maarten <mythtv at ultratux.org> wrote:
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>>On Thursday 21 October 2004 02:19, Brad Fuller
>>wrote:
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>>>Ok, I looked the FAQ over. And, I don't know what
>>>
>>>
>>to do. I assume it has
>>
>>
>>>something to do with the inability for a user (or
>>>
>>>
>>root for that matter
>>
>>
>>>-- i tried that) to switch to DISPLAY:1.
>>>There should be an easy way to do this, rather
>>>
>>>
>>than running at init3
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>>
>>>As I mentioned, I have no problem running myth to
>>>
>>>
>>the computer display with
>>
>>
>>># export DISPLAY=:0
>>># mythfrontend
>>>
>>>But, I receive the following error if
>>>
>>># export DISPLAY=:1
>>># mythfrontend
>>>mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server: 1
>>>
>>>
>>This behavior could be consistent with having the X
>>server started by a
>>different user than the one connecting later. Note
>>that when user fubar
>>starts (owns) the X session, not even the user root
>>can connect to it (not
>>without resorting to trickery at least). So, be
>>sure you start the X server
>>by the same account throughout.
>>
>>But I think in that case the errormessage is
>>slightly different:
>>unable to open display "" is what I see here.
>>
>>You could test to see if this would make any
>>difference: adding the command
>>'xhost +' in between export DISPLAY=:1 and the rest.
>> However, again, xhost
>>must be run by the user owning the X session,
>>otherwise it will just return a
>>failure. Please note that running 'xhost +' is NOT
>>secure, it will open up
>>your X session for everybody. So use this only in a
>>trusted environment !
>>
>>Maarten
>>
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